Organizing For America Rally

Tonight I had the extreme pleasure of seeing Senator Sherrod Brown, Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy, Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, Lt Governor Lee Fisher, Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman, and many others at the Let's Get It Done: Health Insurance Reform Now Event. It was a tremendously exciting and energizing event. The speakers were all excellent, there were hundreds of pro-reformers there, and me and Link were able to hand out 200 Facts not Fear Rally fliers.

This fight is going to be won this September, irrational anger and fear tactics are getting old and starting to fall on deaf ears. Tonight there were hundreds of Central Ohio citizens cheering for healthcare reform, there was a handful of deathers announcing their Tea Parties and peddling their misinformation. Sherrod Brown artfully pointed out that there were only 14 or 15 people trying to disrupt the meeting, after the first 20 minutes, there few and far between cries of "higher taxes", "death panels", and "where's the beef?" were put down completely as they knew that they had come up against their most feared enemy, energized, well informed, organized liberals.

After that the only cheers that interrupted our leaders were "Healthcare NOW!" and "Everybody IN, Nobody OUT"

It was an amazing event, I scored a sweet sign, we informed 190 liberals, and I think about 10 deathers about the Facts not Fear rally, and we had our voices heard.

We are now fired up and ready to go for this Labor Day, the Facts not Fear Rally for Reform is primed and ready to go, we have the POWERHORN (our amazing new bullhorn), and we are now in talks with Organizing for America, Workers United, and the Columbus College Democrats.

Want to join in the fun, send an email to factsnotfear[at]gmail[dot]com or leave a comment.